Subject: attached-to-ansii

From: "Robert C. Dege" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 12:44:17 -0500 (EST)

I was curious if attached-to-ansi (or
attached-to-ansii-no-formfeed) is capable of working under windows95?  I
am currently using Pine 3.95 on UNIX, through a hyper Terminal connection.
I have tried both, but to no avail.  Does anybody have any suggestions??

							Rob

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From: "Kathleen P. Daily-Herrman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 18:10:29 -0700 (MST)

Dear Robert and List Members:

I too had a similar problem with Hyperterminal.  I tried
it as a last desperate attempt to solve my first dilemma
which I posted to TEKNOIDS as outlined below:

I had Procomm Plus for Windows ver 2.11 running just
dandy under WFW 3.11 with the printer port set on
LPT1.DOS under printers in Control Panel when using
my unix shell pine mail on my ISP's system.  The
printing of e-mail to my attached HP Deskjet 520
worked more consistently and reliably than on
just the LPT1 setting.  My present setup for
printer on pine is listed after the end of this
email.

So then...I put Windows 95 on the computer.  Now
my e-mail won't print...a message says it is but
the printer does not even respond.

In my pine mail setup (below) I had always had
the "Attached-to-Ansi" option selected.  Now I'm
wondering if I can use the other options here
to help my computer out since most of DOS have
been removed from Windows 95.  

Can the "personally selected print command" be
configured or the "standard unix print command"
be configured in such a way so someone using
dial-up access can use pine mail on the isp's
server and print to their attached printer
under Windows 95?  If this is not possible,
is it possible to put something in the
autoexec.bat or config.sys to help my
attached printer not to be so confused?

Thanks for any assistance.

Kathleen

TEXT OF MY PINE PRINTER SETUP:

You may "Select" a print command as your default printer.

You may also add custom print commands to the list in 
 the "Personally" selected print command" section below.

Default printer currently set to "attached-to-ansi".

Printer attached to IBM PC or compatible, Macintosh
  This may not work with all attached printers, and will 
  depend on the terminal emulation/communications software 
  in use. It is known to work with Kermit and the latest 
  UW version of NCSA telnet on Macs and PCs,
  Versaterm Pro on Macs, and WRQ Reflections on PCs.
  Printer:   attached-to-ansi
             attached-to-ansi-no-formfeed

 Standard UNIX print command
   Using this option may require setting your "PRINTER" 
   or "LPDEST" environment variable using the standard 
   UNIX utilities.
 
       Printer List: ""        lpr

 Personally selected print command
    The text to be printed will be piped into the command given 
    here.  The command is in the 2nd column, the printer name is in 
    the first column. Some examples are: "prt", "lpr", "lp", or
    "enscript".  The command may be given with options, for example 
    "enscript -2 -r" or "lpr -Plpacc170". The commands and options 
    on your system may be different from these examples.
        Printer List:
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From: "Robert C. Dege" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 00:55:25 -0500 (EST)

OK Kath, I think I may have an answer to my (and your) question.
First, you need to install a "Generic/Text Only" Print driver.  Do this
through, start, settings, printers, Add new Printer, Generic, Generic/Text
Only.  After it's installed right-click on the icon, and select
properties.  Under the details tab, click on spool settings, and select
"print directly to printer".  click OK.  Next, click on "Port settings",
and select "spool MS-DOS print jobs, and deselect check port before
printing.  Click OK.  Click on the Device Options tab, and (at the
bottom), click on the Add New Model button.  Select Generic Model.  Click
OK.  Click apply, and then OK again to exit properties.  Now, load
your Hyper Terminal session, and click File, page setup.  Click on the
printer button, and select Generic/Text Only to be your print driver.
Click OK twice (to exit page setup), and connect to your remote Host.
Now, go into Pine, and select attached-to-ascii as your default printer.

P.S.  Just for the Hell of it, I made the Generic/Text Only Printer the
default printer.  I doubt if this step was significant, but....  what harm
does it do.  I changed it back afterwards, and nothing was affected.

	All of the above changes is what I did in order to get pine 3.95
to print on my Windows95 machine through Hyper Terminal.  I'm not saying
that all of these setting are correct, or if they are significant.  It
just happens to work.  After I successfully printed, I tried using the
process of elimination to decipher what option caused this breakthrough.
But Win95 got this printing kick stuck in its stupid kernal, and wasn't
appearing to react accordingly to my changes... so who knows..... for now.

	Hope this helps :)

							Rob